The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave the final go-ahead last Monday in Beirut

Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.

Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions—the most significant breach of Israel’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War—those people said.

Details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group and political faction in Lebanon, they said.

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    Well, there’s also the fact that after WWII, while the Allies were dividing the world up like a giant birthday cake, they created most of these problems: North Korea, Iraq-Kuwait, and plunking a new Jewish country down in the middle of Arabia.

    If the Allies had decided that Ohio is a new Jewish country, what would’ve been the fallout from that?

    As much as we seem a step removed from this issue, we made the problem.

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      New Jewish country? It was a Jewish nation first and Jews have lived there FAR longer than Arabs.

      This is more like if the US lost WWII and the axis decided to give the Native Americans back their territories.

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        Even according to the Bible/Torah it wasn’t a Jewish Nation first, it was a “Promised Land” which they conquered.

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          Also, the concept of a “nation” didn’t exist until the late 1700s. There were Jewish tribes in the Levant region, along with a ton of other tribes, many of which were just loose clans of family groups.

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          It gets really into the weeds.

          As an ethnic group, Arabs trace back to Abraham through his first son Ishmael from his concubine Hagar.

          Jews trace back to Abraham through his son Isaac and grandson Jacob, who was renamed Israel.